Death Penalty

Tuesday 3 June 2014June 2, 2014 (KHARTOUM) – Sudan’s National Commission for Human Rights (NCHR) has questioned the mental status of a Christian woman accused of apostasy amid reports that a presidential decree to pardon her will be issued during the week. (...)

Wednesday 10 April 2013April 10, 2013 (LONDON) - In 2012 the Sudanese judicial system carried out more executions than any other country in Africa, according to Amnesty International’s annual report into the death penalty. Prisoner at a prison in Bor, (...)

Saturday 1 September 2012By Julius N. Uma
August 31, 2012 (JUBA) - The United Nations High Commission for Human Rights has strongly criticized South Sudan’s recent decision to hang two men in a central prison located in the capital, Juba, saying those executed (...)

Thursday 24 July 2014June 24, 2014 (KHARTOUM) – The Sudanese Christian woman who was spared the death penalty after her conviction for apostasy was quashed, has safely arrived in Rome.
Meriam Ibrahim was accompanied by her family and Italy’s deputy minister (...)

Sunday 26 May 2013May 25, 2013 (KHARTOUM) – A special court in Sudan’s Darfur region has sentenced to death three men who are likely to be hanged, their bodies later crucified and publicly displayed, if the court’s decision is implemented.
The verdict was (...)

Sunday 1 June 2014June 1, 2014 (KHARTOUM) – The Sudanese foreign ministry denied a statement attributed to its undersecretary Abdallah Alazrag in which he announced that the government will seek to free a woman sentenced to death for apostasy within the (...)

Tuesday 24 June 2014June 23, 2014 (KHARTOUM) – A court of appeal in Khartoum cancelled a death sentence issued last month against Meriam Ibrahim for apostasy, the official Sudan News Agency (SUNA) reported on Monday. An image taken from an undated video (...)

Friday 14 September 2012By Elizabeth Ashamu and David Deng
When the Republic of South Sudan declared independence in July 2011, it joined the ranks of a small handful of African countries that continue to carry out judicial executions. On August 21, two men (...)

Wednesday 10 April 2013AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL
Press Release
Wednesday 10 April 2013
Death penalty 2012: Despite setbacks, a death penalty-free world came closer
Despite some disappointing setbacks in 2012, the global trend towards ending the death (...)

Holding accountable those enabling genocide in Sudan2016-12-05 05:30:49
Eric Reeves
As grim genocide by attrition in Darfur is set to enter its fifteenth year, as Khartoum’s claim of a purely nominal “cease-fire” in South Kordofan is belied by repeated reports of Sudan (...)